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July 29, 2011

Gmail's Auto-Forwarding Notice

Google decided to show a pink bar which informs Gmail users that their messages are automatically forwarded to another email address. The annoying "you are forwarding your email to ..." is displayed for about 3 minutes every time you open Gmail this week.

The explanation for this temporary annoyance is that some malicious software or other people who gain access to your account can setup auto-forwarding. "For about a week, this notice will appear for a few minutes each time you sign in to your account. Displaying the notification in this way helps ensure that you have a chance to see the notice, rather than someone who might try to gain unauthorized access to your account and use this setting improperly. The notice will disappear immediately if you choose to disable the forwarding setting, but that decision is up to you," mentions Google.

So that's the reason why there's no "dismiss" link and you're forced to see the pink bar again and again. Maybe it would be more useful to show this message for one week after auto-forwarding has been setup.

I can definitely see Sushubh's point, here: If someone got hacked a while ago, the solution of having the message show up for a week after a filter is created would fail to catch their attention (because the filter's likely older than a week).

I think this is principally an effort to ferret out long-lived hacking.

I was admittedly ready to commence violent one-man street demonstrations over the annoying pink bar at the top of my otherwise pretty gmail screen; however, now that I know why it's there I can calm down and save my clever protest signs for future re-use. Note to Google: How about a little 'hi, I'm here because...' link next to such a banner in the future?

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